by PascalGarnier (Author), JaneAitken(Translator) (Author), EmilyBoyce(Translator) (Author)
A crime author writing the story of Louis, who decides to do his cash-strapped friends a favor by hastening their parents' demise, finds reality and fiction overlapping during a stay in Normandy.Pascal Garnier combines the style of Simenon, the insight of Camus with a wit that is all his own.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 12 Sep 2016
ISBN 10: 1910477222
ISBN 13: 9781910477229
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Once again Pascal Garnier authors a very dark and gripping French middle class tragedy that as always provides insight into the downside of human relationships.
Midwest Book Review
He slowly peels back the layers of an individual's character and shows that no one is easily known.
Booksie's Blog
Garnier is convincing in his portrayal of how two seemingly-normal, somewhat functional people combine and fuse into murderous, toxic, self-destructive isolation.
Swiftly Tilting Planet/His Futile Preoccupations
.. . a grim and oddly funny entertainment for readers.
The Canadian National Post - April 30, 2015
Garnier is one of the few French writers interested in the same human landscapes that, mutatis mutandis, interested Raymond Carver in the United States...
The Arts Fuse